A favourite scammer trick is to pretend that a recent lottery winner has decided to give away part of his or her winnings via the Internet.
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‘Big Lottery Fund’ Advance Fee Scam Email
by Brett M. Christensen November 11, 2018According to this email, you have won £1,130,883 via the Big Lottery Fund and should contact the Foreign Exchange & Remittance Department manager to request payment.
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‘Big Big British National Lotto’ Advance Fee Scam
by Brett M. Christensen May 8, 2018This message, which is distributed via email, claims that you have won £1,992,347 in the “Big Big British National Lotto”. Supposedly, your email address was chosen as a winner in a free ticket draw.
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Scammers Exploit The Names of Lottery Winners Brett McCoy and Robin Walker
by Brett M. Christensen April 11, 2018According to this email, “Brett and Robin McCoy” are giving away one million dollars to five randomly chosen individuals as part of a charity project.
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‘Facebook Online Award Promo’ Advance Fee Scam
by Brett M. Christensen July 24, 2017Email claims that you have won $5 million in the Facebook Online Award Promo because your email address was randomly selected via a computer system.
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Lottery Scam Variation – Bogus Cheque to Cover Expenses
by Brett M. Christensen March 15, 2017Email claims that the recipient will be sent a small portion of the money they have supposedly won in a lottery in the form of a cheque. The recipient is instructed to bank the cheque and then wire a specified amount to a “tax agent” ostensibly to cover taxation on the winnings
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Email purporting to be from the FBI claims that a previous Microsoft lottery notification sent to the recipient has been checked and found to be genuine
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A sinister variation of the International Lottery Scam is one in which the victim actually does receive a cheque from the criminals. Ostensibly, the cheque is a small portion of the large sum of money that the victim has supposedly won in the “lottery”. The scammers claim that this pre-payment is to be used to cover fees related to the release of the rest of the “winnings”.
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The ZEEMAN EMAIL-LOTTERY scam email shown below claims that the recipient has won money in an international lottery. The email is an…
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Outline: Email claims that the recipient has won a large sum of money in a Yahoo Awards prize promotion (Full commentary below).…